Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78297
Options to allow non-base64/quoted-printable encodings for signed mail
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020913 Debian/1.2.6-2 Description of problem: When signing mail Evolution forces base64 or quoted-printable for the purpose of reducing the likelyhood of mail gateways modifying the body and making the signature unverifiable. However, this causes serious problems when the mail has to be read by programs that do not understand these encodings (such as Linus Torvalds' patch scripts). Furthermore, if mail is sent directly rather than through an ISP smarthost (and the MTA on localhost isn't broken), mail can only corrupted by the recipient (that presumably is capable of correctly configuring a mail server). This patch adds a couple of options to allow non-base64/quoted-printable encodings in GnuPG signed mail and in S/MIME signed mail. If you consider my implementation unacceptable, please still consider the feature request and provide an alternate implementation. The S/MIME part is untested. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: n/a Additional info:
Created attachment 85766 [details] Patch
Upstream didn't accept the patch and we're not going to fork to add new options and change UI. Additionally, fejj's reply as to why the patch isn't accepted upstream applies equally here.